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EDINBURGH: EDMONSTON AND DOUGLAS.
NOTES
ON
OLD EDINBURGH
BY THE AUTHOR OF
‘THE ENGLISHWOMAN IN AMERICA.’
INSCRIPTION OVER DOORWAY IN BLACKFRIARS WYND.
| English Visitor.—‘So this is Blackfriars Wynd!’ Woman.—‘No, it’s hell’s mouth.’ |
EDINBURGH
EDMONSTON AND DOUGLAS
1869.
PREFATORY NOTE BY THE REV. DR. HANNA.
Was ever a more vivid picture of more revolting scenes offered to thereader’s eye than that which the following pages present? If any doubtcreep into his mind as to the accuracy of its details, he has but to readthe reports of Dr. Littlejohn and Dr. Alexander Wood, in which everythinghere stated, not vouched for by the writer herself, is authenticated. Cannothing be done, shall nothing be done, to wipe out such foul blots fromthe face of our fair city? One effort among others is being made in thisdirection by the Association recently organized for improving thecondition of the poor. It is in the hope of winning for this Associationthe support of all the humane among us that these “Notes” are published.It would be a happy, and not surely hopeless issue, if, by the combinedand concentrated endeavours of all interested in the welfare of the poor,such a change were effected that, fifty years hence, it were doubted ordenied that ever such a state of things existed as is here so graphicallyportrayed.
W. H.
6, Castle Terrace,
Jan. 20, 1869.
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